Daniel Jones > Quotes

“I would explain that human love is a combination of three emotions or impulses: desire, vulnerability, and bravery. Desire makes one feel vulnerable, which then requires one to be brave.”
― Daniel Jones, Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

“Because real love, once blossomed, never disappears. It may get lost with a piece of paper, or transform into art, books, or children, or trigger another couple’s union while failing to cement your own.
But it’s always there, lying in wait for a ray of sun, pushing through thawing soil, insisting upon its rightful existence in our hearts and on earth.”
― Daniel Jones, Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

“Ghosting is the most cowardly way to end a relationship,” I once said to a male friend in a room with a guy who had ghosted me years before.”
― Daniel Jones, Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

“I have considered the Dalai Lama and the CosmoGirl way of life, and realized that I behaved with all the dignity of a furious and heartsick and grievously wronged Teletubby.”
― Daniel Jones, Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

“DATING FOR ME WAS ALWAYS like that video game: you try to follow the dance moves, and the further you get in the game, the trickier the moves become, until you are just a flailing mess. I was clingy and desperate and wore my heart on my sleeve, falling madly in love repeatedly, only to meet with heartbreaking rejection at every turn. Which is why it is nothing short of a miracle that two years ago I was swiftly and happily married.”
― Daniel Jones, Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

“For twenty-six years my mother worked for the State Department as a consular officer in the Foreign Service, interviewing visa applicants, quickly determining whether they were lying about their plans, whether they would stay illegally.”
― Daniel Jones, Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

“Because real love, once blossomed, never disappears. It may get lost with a piece of paper, or transform into art, books, or children, or trigger another couple’s union while failing to cement your own.”
― Daniel Jones, Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

“He wasn’t really a texter anyway, so his lack of response didn’t necessarily reflect the weirdness of my text. It was probably normal for non-texters to see a text and not reply to it. They saw it, found it charming (or not), but didn’t think it required a response. Totally standard.”
― Daniel Jones, Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

“Our futile search for answers only deepened our depression, but the great thing about depression is that it’s not one size fits all, but rather comes tailor-made to suit one’s particular personality.”
― Daniel Jones, Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption